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Another Peasant Valley Slum Day

from Two Sides Of The Same Coin by Active Minds

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It’s very clear that vast numbers of people have been left behind by the globalised economic system – a system which exploits their vulnerabilities to provide cheap labour with little concern for the safety, security and living standards of those people it uses.
The wealth of Western countries like the UK was built on the backs of this exploitation, through conquest and imperialism. Other countries and their people were colonised to provide cheap labour and resources from which the infrastructure of countries such as ours was created. Yes, there is new-found wealth for some in these former colonies, but there is also crippling poverty - largely ignored by western eyes. As I write this, we are still in the midst of the global Covid-19 pandemic and, as much as it has created economic hardship in the UK, it is nothing compared to the hardship endured by many in the developing world - where there is little or no economic safety net for those who are unable to work.
Western companies still exploit these massive differences in global incomes to increase their profits. If manufacturing can be re-located to countries with low wage rates and negligible health and safety requirements then you can be sure that they will be. The whole system works by ensuring that those at the bottom are kept so poor that they will be so desperate for money that they’ll risk their safety just to ensure they can feed their families for another week.

lyrics

The reality of global economics
Is that some will go without,
And we are amongst the fortunate ones –
You shouldn’t have any doubt.

Far away from the tabloid pages
People are forced to live in squalor –
Living each day from hand to mouth,
Not daring to think of tomorrow.

Out there, it’s another peasant valley slum day
Back in exploitation land.
We don’t leave enough to make their ends meet.
When will we start to understand?

If we want to make to make poverty history
We must tackle the excesses of greed,
Where a minority have stockpiles of wealth
Far greater than anyone could need.

Meanwhile, it’s another peasant valley slum day
Back in exploitation land.
We don’t leave enough to make their ends meet.
When will we start to understand?

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from Two Sides Of The Same Coin, released May 1, 2020

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